Android Founder Andy Rubin Lists Sprawling Silicon Valley Property for $34.6M

Published: January 15, 2018 | By: American Luxury Staff

Tech developer Andy Rubin—the mind behind the Android smartphone OS—has listed his estate in Woodside with an asking price of $34.6 million. If you appreciate a thoroughgoing Craftsman, and are curious about modern interpretations of the classic style, you need to have a look at the photo suite below.

The house measures 6,000 square feet, which makes it appealingly modest as the residential choice of the man who developed the platform that powers over two billion mobile smart-communication devices worldwide. But the estate stretches to nearly six and one-half acres, and manages to incorporate a small vineyard.

And, what a house it is. It is homage to a historical style, rather than a massive homage to success and its frequent corollary, excess. The home’s exterior is marked by extended eves, abundant timber, earth tones, and ornament via careful composition.  Its winged design gives it maximum scale and sense of expanse for its size. The home’s glass-heavy, double-floor turreted entrance gives it a tremendously invitational quality.

Inside, the house is defined by space, transparency, natural evocation, and texture: contrasting woodgrains and finishes, and varied stone. There are concessions to the contemporary, of course, but this is an American Craftsman in spirit: lots of overtly natural materials in an overtly engineered context, a lushly romantic execution that reconciles present and past tenses.

Andy Rubin has been busy this year launching his ‘Essential Phone,’ a comprehensive smartphone which promises to connect the devices of the IoT, and beat Apple and GE to the punch.

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